Climate Tasmania

The carbon pricing regime will be the start of a long road toward a much-needed paradigm shift for Australia [26 July 2011 | Peter Boyer]

Should the Gillard government’s “Clean Energy Future” scheme become law in coming months, one of the things it will be remembered for is the process that brought it about: a rare [...]

It’s full ahead for natural gas, but speed bumps are looming ahead. [26 April 2011 | Peter Boyer]
Between opposing sides in Australia’s climate-energy debate is a twilight zone, inhabited by people who think getting on with their business is more important than resolving the argument.
Here, where all the big decisions about our collective future are [...]

The big floods have roused a hornets’ nest over their link to climate change and the potential culpability of coal miners. [1 February | Peter Boyer]
We all know that one swallow doesn’t make a summer, any more than one flood makes a climate catastrophe. Senator Eric Abetz was quick to point this out in a [...]